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The Rutgers women’s basketball team released its 2012-13 schedule Thursday afternoon and it showed 15 of 29 regular-season games will be played at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and nine opponents who are coming off an NCAA Tournament appearance.

The non-conference slate is highlighted by a season-opening trip to Georgia and by Rutgers’ fifth appearance in six years in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden, where it will face Louisiana Tech. The Scarlet Knights visit Tennessee on Dec. 30 in the first year since Hall of Famer Pat Summitt was named head coach emeritus.

Big East play begins Jan. 6 with a visit from St. John’s as part of a home-and-home series and ends at home March 4 against Pittsburgh. Rutgers also plays a home-and-home with Cincinnati while facing the other 12 conference members once apiece. As usual, the biggest date on the calendar is a visit from Connecticut on Feb. 16.

On the final day of media availibility prior to Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. clash with Howard University at High Point Solutions Stadium, Rutgers coach Kyle Flood updated his injury report and offered other thoughts in his daily press briefing on Thursday afternoon:

Howard University football coach Gary Harrell understands his team will be a decided underdog Saturday when the Bison travel to High Point Solutions Stadium to face Rutgers. Howard plays on the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (former Division I-AA level), after all.

But Howard’s second-year coach has a simple mantra this week: Let’s go play Division I football.

“There’s no doubt about it it’s going to be tough,” Harrell said. “But we have to get our guys mentally prepared. My thing going in is it’s good to start off 1-0. We’re going to go at Rutgers just like it’s Morehouse (College) or just like it’s any other opponent. We’re definitely going to put the best guys on the football field once again and go right at them. We know it’s going to be a situation where they’re bigger, supposedly stronger, so I just think it’s going to be mind over matter. You have to be mentally into the game. And my guys have to defeat the guy in front of them.

“Like I told my guys yesterday, there’s no doubt about it — they have a great, great, great team. Coach (Kyle) Flood does a great job. Watching them against Tulane, they’re very aggressive. They’re very fast. They’re active. They seem like a very well-coached team.

“But as I told my guys, at one point coming out of high school everybody wanted to play Division I football. Now here’s your opportunity. Let’s go play Division I football. And we’re just going to play one play at a time. One play, ‘I have to play Division I football.’ And when that play is over, they have to do it again. That’s just the mindset we need to have with it. Knowing it’s a tough task, we just belief if it’s a team effort and we do everything fundamentally sound, then we’ll be fine.”

Here is what Harrell had to say regarding the challenge of facing a BCS program the caliber of Rutgers: Harrell1

New Jersey Press Media’s high school football previews hit newsstands today, which means there’s no shortage of scholastic gridiron coverage throughout the Asbury Park Press (Monmouth/Ocean counties), Home News Tribune (Middlesex, parts of Union), Courier News (Somerset, Hunterdon, parts of Union) and the Daily Record (Morris, parts of Sussex) newspapers. I encourage you to buy the newspaper today, because there’s nothing like having 64 pages of Shore Conference information in one concise section of the Asbury Park Press and so on. But here are some assorted links around the web:

I do my best thinking running, and this one could send me to an early retirement and jet-setting around the globe.

At first, I hesitated to share it, but I am calling intellectual copyright laws on it, and much like calling the front seat first, that gives me legal dibs.

So I ran four miles Wednesday night, complete with my reflective vest so I don’t become another of the hundreds of mammals I run past and over that are pancaked on the side of the road.

It got me thinking as I ran along some heavily wooded areas and heard some creaks and cracks in the leaves and trees.

I’ll run my 8-miler Thursday night, and do it with a video camera in front of me. It will be like the Blair Witch Project, but I will have to come up with some other snappy name. That movie made nearly $250 million, so I should be swimming in loot after it.

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Jerry CarinoJerry Carino has covered sports for the Gannett New Jersey newspapers since 1996 and has been on the college basketball beat since 2003. A native of Old Bridge, he also teaches journalism at Kean University.E-mail Jerry

Josh NewmanJosh Newman has worked for the Press since September 2004 and began covering Shore Conference sports full time in September 2006. He is a 2004 graduate of Springfield College with a degree in communications/sports journalism.E-mail Josh

Ryan DunleavyRyan Dunleavy has covered Rutgers athletics for more than a decade, dating back to his days as a student at his alma mater. He became New Jersey Press Media’s Rutgers women’s basketball beat writer in 2009 and Rutgers football beat writer in 2013. Since joining the staff in 2004, the Morris County native also has covered the NFL, MLB, NBA, the Somerset Patriots and high school sports.E-mail Ryan